Where to Start? Talking with Authors About Open Access

Duration: 1 hr 3 mins
Publication Date: May 2025

About the session

Authors are one of the most important stakeholders in the scholarly publishing landscape. Yet many struggle to fully understand the transition toward open access and how this publication option affects their scholarship and their individual careers.

In this session three HSS authors with experience in open publishing across different modes–one through the TOME program for open access monographs, one through the open access journal of a scholarly society, and one through the Path to Open open access book pilot–will share their own experiences in deciding to pursue open access publication. They will address the questions and concerns they encountered along the way and provide recommendations for productive conversations with their peers. Also joining the conversation is a librarian with expertise in open access who will share experiences and offer suggestions for successful engagement with authors across disciplines.

Collection

Annual Meeting (2025)

Speakers

Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University

Philip P. Arnold is a Professor in the Religion Department; core faculty in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Syracuse University; and Founding Director of the Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center. His books are Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan (1999); Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (edited with Ann Gold, 2001); The Gift of Sports: Indigenous Ceremonial Dimensions of the Games We Love (2012); Urgency of Indigenous Values (2023), in the Syracuse University Press series “Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Worlds,” for which he is co-editor. He established and hosts the Doctrine of Discovery Conferences and Study Group and Indigenous Values Initiative. With his wife Sandra Bigtree he co-hosts the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast and is the PI for “200 Years of Johnson v. McIntosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism,” a 4-year (2022-25) grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Professor of Music, The Ohio State University

Danielle Fosler-Lussier is Professor of Music at the Ohio State University. Her interests include global mobility, the politics of music, and women’s roles in musical life. Her open access book, Music on the Move, was published by the University of Michigan Press, supported by a grant from TOME and the Ohio State University Libraries. Music on the Move makes full use of the Fulcrum digital platform by including multimedia and digital maps. She is now working on a book that describes the interaction between government and civic groups in building an infrastructure for musical life in the United States across the twentieth century. She is also Director of the Imagined Futures Graduate Career Development Initiative at Ohio State, which aims to align the university’s graduate curriculum and mentorship with preparation for diverse careers.
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Oberlin College and Conservatory

Eron Smith (EE-run), originally from Decatur, GA, is an assistant professor of music theory at Oberlin College & Conservatory. She got her Ph.D. in 2022 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She researches post-2000 pop music, concerto form, and music-language intersections. Her first print article "Prosodic Dissonance" was published in the open-access journal Music Theory Online in 2024. As an author, Eron prefers to be cited by first name rather than last (e.g., “Eron 2023”). This preference is partially because her first name is significantly more distinct than her last and partially to question the assumption that patrilineal names are more professional. Outside of academia, Eron is also a pianist, oboist, songwriter, and parent to an amazing 8-month-old. She enjoys traveling, birding, reading sci-fi, and playing the occasional video game, and is passionate about emotional literacy and mental-health coping strategies.
Project Manager, Amplifying Humanistic Scholarship, American Council of Learned Societies

Sarah McKee is the Project Manager for Publishing Initiatives at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), where she works to support a healthy ecosystem for the creation and dissemination of humanistic scholarship across disciplines and institutions. Prior to her arrival at ACLS she administered Digital Publishing in the Humanities, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and based at Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and served as managing editor of the born-digital New Georgia Encyclopedia at the University of Georgia Press. She is an advisory board member for the Next Generation Library Project and coauthor of Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community.
Associate University Librarian for Publishing, University of Delaware

Annie Johnson is the Associate University Librarian for Publishing, Preservation, Research, and Digital Access at the University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. Her portfolio includes the digital initiatives and preservation department, library information technology, and the University of Delaware Press. Annie works to further open access, open education, and open data at the University of Delaware and beyond.